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A Fun Game – In Your Head (Part Three)

Frivolous Fun Friday: 

I cannot believe I forgot today was Friday!  How ditzy of me!  (This is the reason why today’s blog post has just materialized!)  It’s been a hectic (and fun) week spending quality time with my lovely family -unfortunately the head cold/flu I have been suffering from has not helped me to think clearly for my regular writing sprints (a fuzzy brain comes to mind).  Fortunately I am getting better -therefore, I am hoping the next few days I will get back to normal (whatever normal may be).  Being out of sync is just a weird-out-of-body experience, don’t you think?  Have you ever had moments like that and just found it too difficult to concentrate and make sense of things?  How did you resolve the setbacks (if any)?  Whilst I leave you to ponder on that, I think it’s best that I do not waste any more valuable time and go straight onto today’s post.

(As always, there is a pdf document at the bottom of the post for those who may find this a difficult read.)

Let the Fun Game In Your Head Begin…

It is now exactly one month since we embarked on this mind game and I am hoping all the participants have had fun *looks up expectantly* -I am actually intrigued on how they tackled the task at hand and if my theory has worked *prays*

In short:  Today is part three of the game I devised four weeks ago; if you still do not know what it is all about then head on over to this post.  Now comes the fun part, Billie Jo Woods, CM Stewart and Cynthia all stood up to the unusual challenge.  They were required to create a character(s) profile and write a 200-300 word dialogue within the guidelines I set out in part one of this game (see the details below).  In part two, I asked them to email the character(s) profile they created to one of the participants (names selected out of a hat by me); with the character(s) profile(s) they received they had to write another 200-300 word dialogue (again meeting the same requirements as mentioned below).

Setting:  A small quiet village approx 200 miles from the nearest city adorned with thatched cottages and surrounded by vast empty fields.  Not much happens here, except for their festival –the festival of colour, this happens once a year; tourists and families from afar visit, no one misses this event.  This is the highlight of the year for the villagers; they prepare for this the whole year.

The Dialogue Prompts:

• No children live in the village.
• A child hides in a barn and stays after the festivities.
• Your character(s) interacts with the child.
• The child has a secret.
• Add a surprise of your own -in keeping with your character(s) profile.

Here’s a quick recap on my theory (just in case you have forgotten -I’ve quoted myself ):

It’s quite a simple theory if you really think about.  I am inclined to think, -if and that’s a HUMANGOUS if; if our character(s) profiles are written with great care; if we build them like a real person, know their likes and dislikes etc and those random quirks they have, -then in ‘theory’ the voice of that character will not change much if another person writes from their POV (point of view).  I mean, there might be the odd variation -and I don’t expect the dialogues to be identical, I just would like to believe that that voice would be easily identifiable as X character(s) voice than anyone’s else.  We will now have a better idea now that we have reached the final stage of this game.  We can now analyse and compare to see if my theory holds true or is just a random errand thought.

Image sourced from: http://www.guardian.co.uk/

Now Comes the Fun Part:  It’s the Grande Finale; therefore, participants (Billie Jo, Cynthia and Cynthia ) you can now share share share all that you have done on your blog and link it in the linky tool below.  I’ll leave it up to you if you would like to write one blog post or several -the linky tool will be open for two weeks so that should give you enough time (if you need more time let me know).  Please ensure you display your original (own) character(s) profile(s) and dialogues separate to the character(s) profile(s) you have received and written a dialogue accordingly to.

What’s Next?  The next three frivolous Friday’ post I will collate the related character(s) profile(s) and dialogues (both the original and the second writers); we will then look at the similarities and differences and see if and why they differ.  Billie Jo, Cynthia and Cynthia I would like to have insights from yourselves (I will email you shortly and explain my thoughts).

If you want to display these links on your blog, please feel free to get the InLinkz code here.

Should you have any questions or suggestions, please ask/let me below in the comment box or via the contact details below.

Before I forget, this game is for fun so sadly there are no prizes; but if it proves popular and there’s a demand for it to be played again in the future, I’ll keep a note and consider it then.

Have a fab-tastic Friday and a wondrous weekend.  Keep that positivity-a-glowing and your smile forever shining -stay in peace.

A Tiny Note:  This game is the final stage of the game; in two weeks (22/10/2011) we shall analyse the results and have a debate/discussion, so please feel free to pop by then and join in.

Copyright © Ozlem Yikici 2011 & Copyright © doodllz™ 2011. All Rights Reserved.

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As you already know, thoughts and comments are encouraged as always -even if it is just a word -as ‘all good discussions start with just one word‘.

Pdf document:  A Fun Game – In Your Head (Part Three)

If there is a topic you would like me to look into and explore in my own yikici-kind-of-way then please feel free to leave a suggestion in the comment box below or for those of you who are a wee bit shy drop me a line via my contact page or email me at admin[at]yikici[dot]co[dot]uk

A Fun Game – In Your Head (Part Deux)

Frivolous Fun Friday: 

Good morning *yawns* I’m sitting at my desk with a lovely cup of brewed English Tea and on top of that my laptop is cooperating (The external hard drive arrived this morning, so after this post I will be doing some serious backing-up *cheers*).  It’s a beautiful sunny day here the UK (I know you all probably do not want a weather report -and this is not one I promise) -so despite that earlier *yawn* I’m on a positive this morning and I hope you all are too -I’m sure my fabulous readers and visitors are doing super-duper.

Before we get onto the game I had to share a video -last night as I was trying to sleep I heard a cat meowing (or rather having an argument) and it reminded me of a video I had watched on YouTube a while back, (it had me in a fit of giggles back then) and so as an extra Frivolous Fun Friday treat I give you:  

(As always, there is a pdf document at the bottom of the post for those who may find this a difficult read.)

Let the Fun Game Begin…

Now back to today’s post.  Today is part two of the game I devised two weeks ago; if you want to see what it’s all about head on over to this post <—well, if you don’t click you will not find out; what are you like!

Have you come back?  Oh good; I have to say that I am delighted by the interest shown and also extremely happy that there’s a fab few (Billie Jo Woods, Jody Moller, CM Stewart and Cynthia) who wanted to take part.  I too was considering to take part but what with my laptop causing me problems -I didn’t get far enough to think about it (I was too annoyed, hence it hindered my progress), therefore, I think it’s best I be the ‘games master(ess)’ -well, someone has to do it.  In addition, Jody had to pull out due to personal reasons (Jody, I hope all goes smoothly); therefore our contestants are now three in total (three is a good number -all things comes in threes, so maybe this is a good sign).

Matching-up the Names:  In order for it to be fair, I have put the three participants name into a hat and pulled them out.  I matched them to the names I had previously written down in an alphabetical order; this is the final list:

Cynthia E. —> CM Stewart

CM Stewart —> Billie Jo Woods

Billie Jo Woods —> Cynthia E.

This next part will involve emailing across your character(s) profile to the person on the other side of the arrow e.g. Cynthia will email to CM Stewart; CM Stewart will send an email to Billie Jo Woods and Billie Jo will email Cynthia -ok so far?  Good.   (I will be contacting you guys with the email addresses you need, therefore keep an eye out for that.)  Once the emails are received and you have a read of the character(s) profile you have in front of you I want you to write another 200-300 words dialogue with the same setting in mind (see below) and also include the required prompts that are needed for the dialogue (also below).

Setting:  A small quiet village approx 200 miles from the nearest city adorned with thatched cottages and surrounded by vast empty fields.  Not much happens here, except for their festival –the festival of colour, this happens once a year; tourists and families from afar visit, no one misses this event.  This is the highlight of the year for the villagers; they prepare for this the whole year.

The Dialogue Prompts:

• No children live in the village.
• A child hides in a barn and stays after the festivities.
• Your character(s) interacts with the child.
• The child has a secret.
• Add a surprise of your own -in keeping with your character(s) profile.

Remember, no sharing your dialogues until I say so.  Now get those dialogues a-ready; think, plot and come back in two weeks time; I will reveal the next stage of the game (the Grande Finale).

In Your Head…

Now comes to the part about my theory; I was in two minds if I should reveal it now or reveal it when we reach stage three (see I do not want to put pressure on my fab participants), but seeing that you have waited patiently I will let you in on my thoughts.  It’s quite a simple theory if you really think about.  I am inclined to think, -if and that’s a HUMANGOUS if; if our character(s) profiles are written with great care; if we build them like a real person, know their likes and dislikes etc and those random quirks they have, -then in ‘theory’ the voice of that character will not change much if another person’s writes from their POV (point of view).  I mean, there might be the odd variation -and I don’t expect the dialogues to be identical, I just would like to believe that that voice would be easily identifiable as X character(s) voice than anyone’s else.  Does that make sense?  We will get a better idea when we reach the final stage when we can analyse and compare to see if my theory holds true or is just a random errand thought.  (I will try and set up one of those linky lists so it’s easier to work with.)

If you have any questions or suggestions, please ask/let me below in the comment box or via the contact details below.

Before I forget, this game is for fun so sadly there are no prizes; but if it proves popular and there’s a demand for it to be played again in the future, I’ll keep a note and consider it then.

Have a fab-tastic Friday and a wondrous weekend.  Keep that positivity-a-glowing and your smile forever shining -stay in peace.

A Tiny Note:  This game is currently being played in three stages; this is stage two.  Stage  three is in two weeks (07/10/2011).  I am having a bit of a semi-brainwave for the final stage (to make it fun), come back in two weeks and see what I am cooking up.

Copyright © Ozlem Yikici 2011 & Copyright © doodllz™ 2011. All Rights Reserved.

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As you already know, thoughts and comments are encouraged as always -even if it is just a word -as ‘all good discussions start with just one word‘.

Pdf document:  A Fun Game – In Your Head (Part Deux)

If there is a topic you would like me to look into and explore in my own yikici-kind-of-way then please feel free to leave a suggestion in the comment box below or for those of you who are a wee bit shy drop me a line via my contact page or email me at admin[at]yikici[dot]co[dot]uk

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